Satelor AME Lorraine regional project

Participants : Mandar Harshe, Bernardetta Addis, Evangelia Tsiontsiou, Ye-Qiong Song [contact] .

MADYNES is involved in Satelor, a regional research and development project funded by the AME (Agence de Mobilisation Economique) of Lorraine (October 2013 – September 2016). The consortium includes academic (Univ. of Lorraine, Inria), medical (OHS) and industrial (Diatelic-Pharmagest, ACS, Kapelse, Salendra, Neolinks) partners. It aims at developing innovative and easily deployable ambient assisted living solutions for their effective use in the tele-homecare systems. Madynes team is mainly involved in the data collection system development based on wireless sensors networks and IoT technology. The first topic consists in defining the basic functions of the future SATEBOX – a gateway box for interconnecting in-home sensors to the medical datacenter, based on our previously developed MPIGate software. A first specification for achieving a beta-version prototype of the future Satebox gateway has been made. It is intentionally limited to only using Zigbee wireless sensors for providing a low-cost and easily deployable solution for the daily activity monitoring. Its first real-world deployment at a OHS hospital room has also bee carried out.Through this deployment, a lot of important lessons have been learn that enable us to improve the reliability, robustness and the accuracy of our system. The second topic is related to improving the data transfer reliability while still keeping minimum energy consumption. This has led us to focus on the multi-hop mesh network topology with multi-constrained QoS routing problem (PhD thesis of Evangelia Tsiontsiou). A state of the art study has shown the need to look for new routing algorithms and the interest of the newly developed operator calculus approach.

Hydradrone R&D Lorraine UL project

Participants : Adrien Guenard, Laurent Ciarletta [contact] .

Funded by the Region Lorraine under the R&D program.

The Madynes team has been working on the Hydradrone project since July 2014. It is starting as a collaborative R&D regional research and development project, funded by Region Lorraine. This project is a joint work between Madynes and PEMA (Pedon Environnement et Milieux aquatiques), an SME/VSE (small and medium size Entreprise, PEM/TPE). The company is providing the use cases and terrain (and business) validation.

It consists in developing a new solution for the surveillance of aquatic environment, the Hydradrone :

6PO Research Region Lorraine and UL project

Participants : Emmanuel Nataf, Ye-Qiong Song, Yael Kolasa, Laurent Ciarletta [contact] .

Funded by Region Lorraine and Université de Lorraine since 2013. Vincent Chevrier is the point of contact for the dep. 5 at Loria. Adel Belkadi (CRAN & LORIA) is co-directed by L. Ciarletta and Didier Theilliol (CRAN correspondant).

6PO (“Systèmes Cyber-Physiques et Commande Coopérative Sûre de Fonctionnement pour une Flotte de Véhicules sans Pilote” ) is a joint research project between the Loria and CRAN laboratories. It aims at researching solutions for safe formation flying of collaborative UAVs seen as part of a collection of Cyber Physical Systems. This led to a common publication and the organisation of a workshop in 09/2014. It is reinforced by a PhD grant from the Federation Charles Hermite that started in october 2014. Efforts will be pursued in 2015.

The project provides common use cases and scientific challenges that serve as catalysts for collaboration between teams from different research topics :